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The Learning Fellows Program—organized by the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) and Educational Technologies—embeds advanced students in classes around campus. It’s a model that is rapidly changing the Dartmouth classroom experience, says the program’s director, Kes Schroer.

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In his latest post for Inside Higher Ed's "Technology and Learning" blog, Joshua Kim, director of Digital Learning Initiatives at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL), discusses the book "The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047" by Lionel Shriver.

Quotes Daniel Rockmore, the William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science and director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science, in a news brief about how the Neukom Institute held a series of Turing tests that sought to determine if algorithms can produce "human-quality" works of art like sonnets, short stories and dance music sets.

Cites a book co-authored by Elliott Fisher, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, where they discuss how there are diminishing returns to many technological advances in healthcare.

In his latest post for Inside Higher Ed's "Technology and Learning" blog, Joshua Kim, director of Digital Learning Initiatives at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL), discusses the book "Kill Process" by William Hertling.

In his latest post for Inside Higher Ed's "Technology and Learning" blog, Joshua Kim, director of Digital Learning Initiatives at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL), discusses where the MOOC movement is going and shares stats to quantify the edX platform.

In his latest post for Inside Higher Ed's "Technology and Learning" blog, Joshua Kim, director of Digital Learning Initiatives at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL), discusses the paper "Paper: Paging Through History" by Mark Kurlansky.

An article that mentions that artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way since the 1956 Dartmouth artificial intelligence conference, which many consider the birthplace of the discipline. The field has grown in fits and starts since then, partially due to a lack of computing power.

Read the full story, published on 7/18/16, in the Wall Street Journal.

An article that mentions Hanover has proven to be a hotbed of Pokemon activity for the smartphone app Pokemon Go, which uses GPS technology to scatter Pokemon throughout the real world to be "caught" by players who seek them out, with "packs" of Dartmouth College students wandering downtown and throughout campus playing the game.

An opinion piece by Kaya Thomas '17, creator of the iOS app We Read Too that encourages children to read books by and for people from underrepresented backgrounds, where she discusses a recent article about Facebook's diversity problem and how the tech industry needs to accept the blame for not hiring underrepresented people.

Quotes Darrin McMahon, professor of history, about how the idea that happy is something you should be, and can become through your own efforts, wasn't always as dominant as it is now. "I like to point out that the word for happiness in every Indo-European language is a cognate for luck," McMahon says. "In English, 'happy' comes from the Old Norse word 'happ' meaning 'chance' or 'good luck'."